Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes About Punk
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
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I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.
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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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